We get it, this happens every year (probably more then we know);
Monday morning at around 6:30 AM, police were called to a sidewalk about a half block from the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House. Police found a man in the snow who was unresponsive. Paramedics arrived and determined he had already died.
I will defend staff on one level, it is probably hard to be out looking around for these folks, but I’m sorry, how does this happen so close to your front doors?
Finland has a goal of ending homelessness by 2027! And don’t mock, they have reduced their homeless population down to a couple of thousand people already by using a program developed in the United States called ‘Housing First’.
We can make a bigger impact in Sioux Falls, because someone dying in the cold only a few steps from a shelter is unacceptable.
Editor’s Note; I did receive the tip about this Monday night and was checking sources yesterday before I posted.